Assistant General Counsel - Remote

Overview

Snapdocs is a rapidly growing company that is disrupting the residential mortgage market, bringing scalable and sophisticated software to a pillar of the US economy that still relies on fax machines and manila envelopes. Today, 20% of real estate transactions are processed through our platform. Our products rely on carefully designed workflows, AI-based automations, and empathetic user experiences to deliver best-in-class customer experiences. We are backed by investors like Sequoia, Y Combinator, and F-Prime.

We are an innovative team. As we expand our product offering to serve more customers in more ways, we need to grow our team with smart, hungry, and curious people. That’s where you come in…

In Short

• Lead an in-house commercial legal function through complex negotiations, prioritizing workflows and clearly communicating divisions of responsibility, deliverables, and timelines to relevant stakeholders.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for sales, business development and other internal Snapdocs teams in commercial contracting matters.
• Draft, review and negotiate a wide variety of commercial agreements with a primary focus on SaaS agreements, our purchase of software and services agreements, NDAs and co-marketing, alliance and technical integration agreements.
• Support our sales and customer success teams in negotiating contracts with customers from start to finish and provide tactical advice to help close deals quickly and efficiently.
• Build and support the product and privacy counseling function within the legal team, including processes and operations.
• Work closely with Snapdoc’s information and security team on shared goals and objectives.
• Remain current on applicable laws and regulations surrounding contract law, IP, privacy, and security and conduct periodic employee trainings on any or all of the above.

Requirements

• Track record of growing and scaling an in-house commercial legal team and building commercial processes.
• Ability to work with diverse teams through complex negotiations, clearly communicating divisions of responsibility, deliverables, and timelines to relevant stakeholders.
• Must be comfortable engaging in front-line, live (via phone or zoom) commercial agreement negotiations.
• Working knowledge of privacy laws, including CCPA and GLBA.
• Possess technically excellent and persuasive negotiation, commercial drafting, and communication skills.
• Ability to develop strong relationships across the company to foster an environment where the legal department is consulted early and often.
• Possess a bias towards action with a strong work ethic.
• Be highly responsive with a service-oriented attitude and the ability to prioritize and multi-task numerous projects simultaneously.
• Ability to calibrate risk and think “outside-the-box” to provide commercially-driven legal advice.
• Ability to work efficiently and effectively as a key member of a small but impactful legal department in a fast-paced and constantly changing environment.
• Possess the highest ethics and morality.

Benefits

• Excellent health, dental, and vision benefits.
• 401(k) with up to 4% company match.
• 16 weeks paid parental leave (regardless of gender).
• Flexible time off policy.
• Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care.
• Life and disability insurance.